I woke at six but only got up at
seven. Headache is back, just a slight pressure on the back of my head,
bearable though unpleasant. Romeo’s caterwauling through the flat doesn’t help,
silly boy!
I’m trying a different approach to
my day, today. Maybe I’ll feel less depressed if I spend less time escaping
from reality; so I’ve set up my cities for long-term production runs giving me
the whole day ‘off’. Well, mostly; my main cities are still on short term runs,
but I’ll stick to the basics throughout the day and do the extra tasks either
in the morning or evening.
Lady Jane seems to be back to
normal. She went out with everyone else when I opened the door, then came back
for a nap in her chair, like she’s always done, and now she’s gone out to play!
I hope.
Crap! I nearly forgot to pay the
rent! Good thing I remembered in time! Last time I pay that lot! Feels good!
But then again, that’s what I thought last time: that I could not possibly get
a worse landlord! And yet, this lot turned out even worse! Just once I would
like to meet an estate agent who is not maliciously greedy! Just once!
Temperatures are rising towards
intolerable again, it’s one in the afternoon and over 30°C – now I’m glad I
finished washing the dishes! There is air movement outside, so maybe I should
go out and pot the Spekboom.
The air movement is not enough to
counter the blazing sun! I quickly filled the smaller of the two large pots and
potted all the geraniums and scraggly spekboom from the front half of the
garden. I’ll leave the other half for later, when that part of the garden is in
the shade.
Earlier, I took some more cuttings
from Rose’s Lavender bush, since the one in the vase seems to have drooped.
While I was busy there, I also pulled some grass which had grown taller than
her Lavender bush! So that just leaves
three more Carnations and the rest of the Spekboom to be readied for transport.
Well, actually, I also want at least one cutting from that white Pelegonia!
That’s my favourite plant! And Rose also offered me the little succulent tree –
I don’t know what it’s called – which Lady Jane also likes to climb! Well, Lady
Jane climbs the big one, I’d like to grow one for her.
All my mippies love Spekboom, so I’d
like to plant as many of those as I can! Maybe have a whole border of Spekboom,
if there’s space where I’m going. That’s the one big unknown factor – I sure
hope there will be space for me to plant what I’ve brought along and get a few beds
going for herbs, veggies and flowers.
Lady Jane seems to be back to normal,
she’s been outside, exploring, and comes inside to melt on the window sill –
all as usual.
I’m not doing too well with today’s
heat, though. I’ve checked the forecast and it should cool down for the next
few days. I’ve sprayed my top with water, so at least that has a little cooling
effect – especially when I move into the breeze!
I’m going to have to get to Makro
sometime this week, my stock is nearly depleted; time to re-stock. I’ve run out
of chocolate quite a while ago, I’ve just opened the last Whiskas and I’m low
on sachets for the mippies. I’m also down to my last bottle of tonic water. I’m
just trying to think if there’s anything else I should get from that store.
Rope, maybe, to tie around the drawers – instead of taping across my furniture.
I’ll also need three more loaves of
bread, as well as some more cold meats from that funny pseudo-german butchery. Although,
with my luck, they’ll be closed for the holidays! I’ll see what time they
deliver my keyboard set tomorrow – if they come early again, I might just go
off shopping right away. Shouldn’t go
too early, though, Makro has such funny hours, I sure don’t want to be stuck
outside again!
I’ve started working on Rose’s basket;
sticking the waft onto the base – which is a horribly fiddly job; especially
since I don’t have a big space to work on. I’ve picked all the plain sticks,
leaving the pretty, colourful ones to weave with. I’m wondering whether I’ve
got enough!
I went downstairs to water the
garden – Mewthos came running eagerly to observe! He is such a funny one about
water! Rose was just moving her car – I actually had to call Romeo; he was
lying stretched on the grass in her way! Rose and I had our daily chat - boy,
will I miss those! At one point Mewthos decided to go sit outside Rose’s garden
– no matter how distressed I sounded, he wasn’t bothered! Ziva and Romeo were
bothered, they don’t like me in distress – but Mewly? Nah – he’s a big boy!
Sigh.
Later he climbed onto Rose’s car and
decided her aerial makes a nice chew-toy! He was not impressed when Rose shooed
him off! He gave us both such a look! Ha Ha! All six cats hung around while
Rose and I chatted: Shadow came to sit on her porch, Frankie was sitting at the
bottom of her stairs glaring and growling at Romeo, Lady Jane stretched herself
on the gate rail Mewthos retreated to lie under a Spekboom and Ziva was
cleaning herself by my feet – or near enough.
My headache stayed with me
throughout the day, very mild pressure, not more than a nuisance. It’s overcast
again – it has been for most of the day. Between the heat and the promising
rain it’s hard to tell when it will clear!
